| Title |
Participatory E-Budgeting Using GIS-Based Spatial Decision Support System: Kozhikode Municipal Corporation |
| ID_Doc |
44215 |
| Authors |
Naseer, MA; Bimal, P; Kumar, TMV |
| Title |
Participatory E-Budgeting Using GIS-Based Spatial Decision Support System: Kozhikode Municipal Corporation |
| Year |
2015 |
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| Abstract |
The 73rd and 74th Amendment of the Indian Constitution has brought the power to prepare development plans to the grass root level - to the Grama Panchayat on the rural side and to the Municipalities on the urban side. Annual budgeting in these institutions is of utmost importance as the implementation of development schemes is possible only through a logical and balanced allocation of available funds. At the municipal level the budget provides a balanced and coordinated approach to municipal activities so that requirements and responsibilities of all sections are analyzed while preparing a budget. One important innovation, Smart City embarks on is a web-based participatory e-Budgeting which empowers citizen. E-Budgeting will use an interactive and dedicated annual Municipal budgeting web site and will also use web-based Geographic Information System (GIS). A hundred percent E-Literate Smart City with smart people would like to be part of E-Budgeting. Participatory budgeting allows local citizens in a municipal ward to identify, discuss, and prioritize public spending projects, to make decisions about how money is spent every year. Kozhikode was practicing Participatory annual planning and budgeting since the mid-1990s. This chapter explores how the existing participatory budgeting can be converted to e-budgeting befitting a Smart city. It also demonstrates how Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) that uses Geographic Information System (GIS) can be deployed in Kozhikode using most up-to-date data for budgetary decision making to help the community to arrive at the most rational budget allocation. |
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